He cited President Obama’s developing “King Complex” as a
possible cause for overreach.

He also says that he is filing legislation to “nullify” some
of these Executive Orders.

Fat chance of that ever happening. Rand Paul tells tall
tales, but has the shortest memory in the US Senate.

Did any of Barack Obama’s orders do anything to curtail the
sale of assault weapons in this country? Anything to limit the number of
cartridges a magazine can hold? Absolutely not. No, all of Obama’s orders dealt
with ways the federal government – the Executive Branch of the federal
government – goes about his job.

That, I think, is well within The President’s purview.

And Rand Paul’s memory is so short. Well, maybe because he
was in college hazing innocent freshmen rushers that he didn’t get the news
that, in 1986, Ronald Reagan issued an Executive Order to ban the import of assault rifles.
Banning import of any class of foreign weapons, too, is within the presidential
purview as the 1968 gun control act made it so.

Barack Obama didn’t do any of that, on that level.

And the cynic in me says that Reagan did what he did to give
American armorers a leg-up on their foreign competitors.